and no to the health care bill. at home you would never pay a bill without reading it neither should congress. i'm frank kratovil and i approve this message because i'm proud to be ranked one of the most independent members of congress. . good morning. wild, wild west. a wildfire in colorado destroys dozens of homes and forces thousands of residents to flee. while the texas, tropical storm hermine rolls ashore bringing heavy rain and strong winds. democrats in danger. as the president hits the campaign trail, our new poll shows the democratic party could be in real trouble with the midterm elections exactly eight weeks away. and joran speaks. a jailhouse interview with joran van der sloot suspected of in the disappearance of natalee

holloway and the death of a woman in peru. holloway and the death of a woman in peru. "today," september 7, 2010. captions paid for by nbc-universal television and welcome to "today" on this tuesday morning. i'm meredith viera. >> i want to make sure you're real. good to have you back. how was your vacation? >> it was really lovely. i missed you too. >> no, that wasn't nice. the good times are over. welcome back, we're welcoming you back, but unfortunately news of a wildfire out west, a tropical storm in texas. we're going to get the latest on both of those stories in just a couple of minutes. and you have heard about the protests over that mosque at ground zero. now a christian church is

planning to burn a copy of the koran this weekend. >> that story getting an awful lot of attention. did you see this video while you were away? a college football player riding on a moped, collides into a pick-up truck and lives. we're also launching a new series this is morning where we all go back and give our very first jobs a try to see if we can actually still handle them. and matt's first job was delivering the news to america, but back then it was one newspaper at a time. let's begin with the wild weather out west, we have got wildfires in colorado, also down south, a tropical storm, miguel

almaguierre has got the latest. >> reporter: firefighters are waiting to assess this situation and see how fast the flames have spread overnight. roughly 3,500 acres have been charred, this fire is still burning out of control, dozens of structures and dozens of houses have gone down in flames, firefighters are actually lost four of their own homes. that number will change as the day goes on. the fire began yesterday afternoon and quickly forced the evacuation of roughly 3,500 residents. the rugged terrain and thick vegetation struggling to get any containment at all. hot shot crews are trying to create fire breaks while other teams are attempting to protect structures and homes. this morning the fire the burning in the foothills about six to seven miles outside of downtown boulder, crews are called this fire extremely complex, not just because of the

terrain, but because of the fuel load here is extremely high and the access to the heart of the fire is difficult to get to. crews here believe that this fire may actually be closing in on million dollar homes, there's still no cause of this fire and, matt, fire officials have requested state and federal aid. >> tropical storm hermine blew into the lone star state, al, good morning to you. >> and as we can see on the radar, you can see that well defined eye of hermine, still a tropical storm, it's 65 miles southeast of corpus christi, texas, 50-mile-per-hour winds, it's moving north/northwest at 17, so fairly quick. it's not unusual to see a tornado watch along the eastern side of this system. here's the path of hermine. it moves into texas on into wednesday afternoon, by thursday morning, it's up in oklahoma,

this one is going to be a potent rainmaker, it's not so much the winds but the rains. rainfall amounts out of this system, we're talking some areas just to the north of san antonio, 10 to 12 inches of rain over the next few days. galveston to corpus christi, you could see seven to eight inches of rain on into central oklahoma. this one's going to be a flooding event, also with the next 24 hours, there could be scattered power outages along the eastern coast of texas. meredith? >> we're going to get your national forecast in just a moment. now to decision 2010, election day exactly eight weeks away, according to our latest poll, the democrats could be in some very big trouble. chief white house correspondent chuck todd has more on efforts to limit the damage. >> reporter: look, in the world of politics, labor day signals the official start of the fall campaign and the president began his effort in wisconsin trying to stop what our brand-new nbc

"wall street journal" polls tends to show a republican tidal wave. in a labor day speech to union members in wisconsin, president obama tried to sound an optimistic tone about the economy. >> i'm going keep fighting every single day, every single hour, every single minute to turn this economy around and put people back to work and renew the american dream. >> reporter: but according to our new nbc/"wall street journal" poll, the public is far from optimistic. 56% disapprove of his handling of the economy, 39% approve. 39% describe the country as being in a state of decline. 61% say the country is headed in the wrong direction. and almost half disapprove of what the president is doing. >> so the recovery act is working, but it's going to

continue to work, it's not over. a lot's going to happen this summer. >> reporter: a lot did happen this summer, but the news was bad, both for the economy and for democrats. and now some vulnerable house democrats like indiana's joe donnelly are distancing themselveses from the president. >> they may not be what the washington crowd wants, but i don't work for them, i work for you. >> reporter: for democrats, the reality is setting in that this election may be survival of the fittest, and for the incumbents, money and campaign money may not be on the way. but the president on the campaign trail continues to be more bush era policy. >> these guys don't want to give up on that economic philosophy that they have been pedalling for most of the last decade. what it really boiled down to was that you were on your own. >> reporter: but the poll shows that message is not resonating. a vast majority, 58% believe that if republicans get a hold of congress, they'll have

different ideas from the unpopular ideas of president bush. this public pessimism seems to be having a personal affect on the president, as he admitted in an unscripted moment. >> the special interest groups have dominate washington for a long time and they're not always happy with me. they talk about me like a dog. >> reporter: this pessimism about america's future isn't about just the next few years, get this, meredith, 56% do not feel confident that our children will be better off than we are. and as you know, meredith, that question, we ask it all the time, normally americans very optimist optimistic, not optimistic right now. >> the president did seem to be on fire in milwaukee as he sounded like he was ready for a midterm election fight, but with an approval rating of 36% in the latest poll-- >> some democrats are treating him as a libt. however if you have decided that everybody who is already against

you cannot be persuaded, then the only way to survive if you're a democrat is to somehow find more democrats to come out. when you look at our poll, the folks that tell us they're not likely to vote, they actually approve of the president's job with 75% approval rating. these are minorities and young voters. they have no interest in this election, if they get interested, they could close that gap. >> how do you get them interested? >> look, that's what the president's trying to do. here's what's odd. turnout goes up, people get enthusiastic about voting when they're unhappy. this small slice of voters, it's only 10% of the electorate, they're happy with the president, they're happy with democrats so they don't see a reason to get off their keisters and go out and vote right now. maybe that will change, but i'll be honest, our pollsters tell us it's very unlikely. >> let's take a look at who voters want to control congress.

and the poll shows there's a tie, 43% of all responders would like to see democrats hold congress, 43% would like to see republicans gain control of congress. but when you boil that down to likely voters, the republicans have a 9 point advantage. >> let's boil that down to actually house seats, a nine point advantage, democrats won the house by 11 points and they control some 60% of seats, over 250 house seats. so if the republicans got something like 54 or 55% of the house vote, which is what a nine point advantage would be, then we are looking at gains anywhere from 50 to 60 house seats which would be historic. and frankly all of the signs here in labor day 2010 actually show republicans will be in a better position than democrats were in 2006 when they took control of congress or when republicans took control in 1994, meredith. >> and if you look at the poll, the current poll shows 60% of

the nation thinks the country is headed in the wrong direction, that's a greater number than in either 2004 or 2006. >> what it's setting up is that democrats basically, you heard this whole triage strategy, any weak incumbent, they're tossing aside. they have to try to save the senate and the white house seems almost more focused on trying to prevent republicans from taking over the senate. they haven't written off the house, but the numbers look like they might have no choice. my might be able to prevent republicans from picking up ten senate seats,that's why you saw the president in milwaukee and he's going to ohio tomorrow. he's going to spend a lot of time trying to save barbara boxer and -- as chuck just reported, one issue will dominate the elections this year.

maria bartiromo is with us. do you get any question more often than where are the jobs. >> that's the single most important question right now, and if you look at the last employment report for the month of august, we did clearly see some growth in manufacturing jobs, different manufacturing like solar panels, not the typical manufacturing jobs that have gone overseas that are not coming back. >> a lot of people have placed their hopes in the tech sector to do the hiring that could spark a recovery and now they're not so sure that sector is going to do the hiring. >> that's true, because there's a lot of sectors out there that you would expect to see job creation, like technology, like health care, but are not seeing enough to compensate for the loss over the financial crisis. that's because business managers are uncertain, they're worried about higher health care expenses in 2011, they're worried about higher taxes,

they're not going to stick their necks out. >> without asking you to go out on a limb and get two political here, how might the midterm elections impact the jobs picture and the economy overall? >> this is probably the single most important catalyst for the stock market right now. i think that the perception of constance, the perception that perhaps we won't see tremendous change in terms of higher expenses in 2011 if we were to see the republicans gain control of the house, it will probably be a positive for the stock market, that could create a rally and believe it or not, rallies like that make people feel richer, they get a better perception out there and they get people to spend more money. so that's probably the most important near term catalyst. >> and that leads to me to a question about your book, you write about the weekend that changed wall street. it was mid-september 2008. you call it a stunning moment when the confidence of a nation and the world was blown. how much of that confidence is gone for good? how much of it has been restored? >> well, i think since things

have stabilized, a bit of conversation has come back. we need more confidence in the stock market. people need to feel that the system is working for them and not just a portion of the people. and until that confidence comes back, we're probably not going to see stability in the stock market and we're not going to see stability in jobs. >> and you write in the book about the fact that that weekend also created class warfare between wall street and main street. that clearly still exists. >> it still exists, there is this feeling that wall street is evil. why do feel invest in the banking sector if the administration and is talking about how evil the stock market is, there's a real pressure sepgs of a division between wall street and main street. but make no mistake, there should not be. but when that road near your home needs paving, it will be wall street that -- assets under

management. >> it's one thing to target mismanagement on wall street, it's another thing to target wall street in general? >> yes, we shouldn't have a brush stroke reaction to business, it's just not true. >> maria bartiromo, good luck on the new book, it's called "the weekend that changed wall street." you can see maria on weekends on cnbc. let's get a check of the rest of the morning's top stories. ann's over at the news desk. good to see you. good morning, everybody, in the news, in addition this morning the top u.s. commander in afghanistan is stepping into a controversy on the home front. general david petraeus warned that a threat by a pastor in florida to burn a copy of the muslim koran on september 11 could endanger u.s. troops by inflaming anti-u.s. sentiment. the daredevil arrested monday for scaling a san francisco skyscraper said he did it to call attention to what he calls the ongoing vulnerability

of skyscrapers to terrorist attacks. veteran climber dan goodwin is charged with trespassing. the flight attendant who quit his job by sliding down an emergency chute last week faces a judge "today." police say it was a miracle that no one on the ground was hurt when a small plane crashed in the middle of a residential neighborhood here las vegas on monday, one person aboard the plane was killed. investigators are searching for the cause of a barn fire monday in west virginia. at least 27 racehorses were killed, but firefighters were able to rescue more than two dozen others. and jefferson thomas, one of the civil rights pioneers known as the little rock nine died sunday in columbus, ohio. thomas and eight other students integrated the state's largest

public school in 1957. the group received congressional gold medals in 1989. thomas died of cancer, he was 67 years old. let's go back to matt, meredith and al. he's remembered not only for his courage but also his humor. let's get

>> good morning. we are off to a nice, quiet start. temperatures in the 60's. it will warm up quickly this afternoon. it will feel like summer again. >> and that's your latest weather. it's hard to believe this weekend will mark the ninth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. and the angry debate over the mosque at ground zero has increased animosity against muslims nationwide. mike tiabbi is in downtown manhattan outside the proposed site.

>> reporter: it took a few months after the plans for the islamic center mosque were made public for the protests to begin. >> we are not going to allow that mosque. >> reporter: over the weekend, another protest. this one joined by local politicians, including new york congressman peter king. >> just because you have the right to build a mosque does not make it right to build a mosque at ground zero. >> reporter: actually it's two blocks from ground zero, but for some opponents proximity hasn't been the point. bill keller says flatly the whole muslim religion is in his words a lie. >> i believe the 1,400-year history of islam is very clear, it's a religion of hate, violence and death. >> reporter: last week hall of fame golfer carolm mann wrote o her facebook page, america is a

christian country, let the muslims erect their worship centers in other countries. talk show host michael berry said this to the supporters of a local islamic center. >> i'll tell you this, if you do build a mosque, i hope somebody blows it up. >> we are going to have an international burn a koran day. >> reporter: given the overheated rhetoric, some say it's no wonder that when a new york cabbie answered yes last week to a customer's question, are you a muslim, the customer, a young film student stabbed him in the neck almost kill hg im. >> that can happen. >> he and some of the other muslims see the growing -- islamic center should go forward. >> it doesn't seem right, it doesn't seem very islamic to me. >> reporter: but they say they're certain the extreme opposition will weaken over time. >> we are americans and we are

loyal to this nation and we believe that one day all of america will recognize that islam is a religion of peace. >> reporter: for now, though, there are those continuing protests, along with anger directed at muslims generally and at their religion that tests the limits of compromise. as for the plans by that tiny florida church to burn a pile of korans, he said david petraeus says if that happens, it could well endanger the lives of american troops and damage the war effort. and coming up, joran van der sloot's suspected in the disappearance of natalee holloway and of the death of a woman in peru speaks out behind bars. but first this is "today" on nbc.

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>> live, local, latebreaking. this is wbal-tv 11 news today in baltimore. >> good morning. i am stan stovall. here is kim dacey and traffic pulse 11. >> let's start on the out of the west side of the beltway. this is still causing some delays. grease on the outer loop 95.

-- breeze on the outer loop 95. haddon avenue closed in the same area. columbia, fire shutting down carmel drive. report of an accident on northbound 95. we will give you a live look outside on the west side delays. from stephenson edmondson, you will see a lot of this. you might want to consider an alternate route if you can. 95 north, looks like one lane is blocked because of an accident there. that is the latest on traffic pulse 11. >> the traffic may be busy, but the weather is not. we have mostly clear skies, and warm up quickly. 65 in catonsville, 65 in parkton.

mostly sunny skies. a few high, thin clouds. it will be a lot more than over the weekend. -- a lot warmer than over the weekend. seven-day forecast, 30% chance of a thunderstorm tomorrow. >> you can check the bottom of your screen for updated news and traffic information. back in 25 minutes.

7:30 now on a tuesday morning, it's the seventh of september, 2010. back to reality, back to school, back to work. i think this would be a great week to take vacation, places are empty, weather is beautiful. a lot of folks out on the plaza, we'll say hello to them in just a little while. i'm matt lauer along with meredith viera. coming up with some really good news for consumers. at the supermarket, stores are often trying to get you to buy their store labels instead of

the brand labels, should you? the answer is a resounding yes. a spectacular crash caught on tape. this iowa football player was riding without a helmet and incredibly walked away with just scrapes and bruises. we're going to talk to him about it exclusively in our next half hour. also ahead, we're kicking off a new series, meredith, al, natalee and i are going back to our new jobs. i'm up first this morning, giving my old paper route in westchester, new york, a lot of people surprised to get newspapers they didn't sign up for. >> it almost looked like you fell off the bike there. >> i wear a helmet later in the piece, i will tell you that, i'm just kidding around. we're going to continues with joran van der sloot, the man long suspected in the disappearance of natalee holloway and in the murder of a bomb in peru. michelle coz zin sky has been

following this. >> reporter: a chance to sit this guy down and finally ask him, can you and will you finally solve the natalee holloway case for good? did you kill this young woman in peru? why have you told so many lies. but joran van der sloot is expert at answering just up to the possibility of finding out the key to these questions for good. it's the first time we have heard from him in a long time and it is intriguing. >> for everything that i have been through since 2005, all the things said in the media, everything i feel guilty for, yeah. >> reporter: guilty is how joran van der sloot says he feels. for his family's shame, his father's heart attack, to not listening to his mother and all the lies he admits he's told these years. >> i was doing a lot of things

they shouldn't have been doing. and mostly going out overnight and sleeping all the day. i have always been very, how you call it, impulsive, always been taking action right away and make a decision immediately and not think about what the consequences are. >> reporter: he explains why he's told so many wildly different stories about what's happened to natalee holloway in aruba. >> people were paying me to make up stories and i was really good at making up stories. everybody keeps coming at you, asking you questions, asking you something, you don't know something and finally you start to think, okay, well, [ bleep ] if you want something, then i'll tell you whatever you want to hear, sure. i misused the situation for my own advantage and i feel bad about that and if i could change that, i would take it back for sure.

>> reporter: with three months locked up in a peruvian prison awaiting trial for murder, has brought him no closer to just saying once and for all his role in the two cases for which he's suspected. >> anything pertaining to the two cases, i'm not going to talk about. >> reporter: murder of the peruvian student stephany flores, playing poker with her in may on the anniversary of natalee holloway's disappearance. they both were seen entering the hotel room and he left alone. stephany flores was found murdered. he says police offered him extradition to aruba. >> they didn't let me talk to anybody, they didn't let me

arrange my own lawyer. i'm saying it's not in my interest at all to talk about this. >> reporter: his interest is still his main concern. what joran does admit to though is extortion, accepting $25,000 from holloway hlnatalee hollowa in exchange for the location of her remains. he says he just made up another story. >> i have had five years long that people have just been playing me for something and, yeah, i have a lot of anger built up because of that also. and at one point, i thought just that, okay, you know, you keep insisting that you want to give me this money, i have already told a lot of different stories, i'll do it again. yeah, i know it's very wrong, very wrong what i did. >> reporter: he says he knows nothing about what really happened to natalee. he says he's doing this interview because he's been portrayed as a monster. and while joran never explained

why people should see him any differently, he expresses some words for the flores family. >> i feel really bad that her family had to lose a daughter, that really does hurt me and i think about it all the time. >> reporter: but did he kill her or not? >> when i speak to the judge and the time is right, i am going to tell the whole truth, absolutely. >> reporter: joran says he wishes he had followed his mother's plans to send him to a psychiatric clinic in holland. >> i have really felt guilty for everything. >> reporter: instead he took the holloway family's money and came to peru to gamble. where another young woman disappeared last seen with him. it could be a year or more behind bars before trial. >> so whatever problems, i created all of them myself, so i have to deal with it now and i'll deal with the consequences.

>> reporter: joran says he's been spending time reading inspirational books. there was some question among aruban investigators to get to peru and talk to him about the holloway case but now you talk to the chief prosecutor and he says well, he's told so many stories over the years, he now has real doubt he would give them anything of interest. john q. kelley is an attorney representing natalee holloway's mother. he's accused of extorting money from the holloway family, but he says he was angry for in his words the holloway family hassle him for years. >> you know, it's always been with joran, he's always the victim, he's always, you know, seeking attention. he's always misunderstood and somebody's absolutely going to tell the truth, i have heard those words from him so many times and he's a pathological

liar. >> you met with him this year twice, you're the one that gave him that initial $10,000 from beth twitty. >> sure. >> hopefully in exchange for information about the whereabouts of her daughter's body. is he willing to admit it's extortion? >> i've got about 3 1/2 hours of videotape and audiotape and e-mails i have exchanged with him and the whole scenario as it played out, so he doesn't have to admit to anything, it's all memorialized. >> he says it's the holloway family that initiated this exchange. >> he contacted me directly in a desperate way, he was asking for money, demanding money in exchange for information and the whole premise of giving him the money is with the understanding that he was ultimately go to lie, we knew he was going to lie and that was going to make up the basis for wire fraud. >> he's now in jail or prison in peru awaiting trial for murder

and he's also under indictment for wire fraud and extortion in the u.s. you would think he would want to stay out of the public eye, why do you think he did this interview? especially since he didn't give any worth while information. >> attention seeking. he wants to be in the spotlight, when he contacted me, he wasn't even on my radar screen, he came out of nowhere, now for six months he's been down in peru rotting in prison and he wants to be out there again, he just can't help himself. >> when he says he's apologetic about his behavior, do you believe him? >> we have got 20 e-mails that he says he's going to tell the truth, absolutely, that's his favorite word, he's going to come clean this time. he's just incapable of it. >> do you see any circumstances where he would tell the truth? >> i think fear, and self-preservation, it's not sympathy for the family, it's not out of respect for his own

family, i think the only thing that can make him want to tell the truth is protecting joran. >> will he ever face the u.s. court? >> everybody's talking about how he might get out of peruvian prisons because he was unjustly arrested, but if does, he's going to wind up in an alabama prison. >> joran van der sloot behind bars, that's friday night at 10:00, 9:00 central time right here on nbc. now let's get a check of the weather from al. we have got a cute family here, where are you guys from? >> new york. >> my father watches the today show every day. >> let's check your weather and see what's happening, we'll show you for "today," nice and mild, 70s and 80s in the northeast, 90s as you get to the gulf coast, 100s as you work your way into the southwest, 50s in the

plains states, 60s there, the rest of the country, we're looking at hermine causing a lot of rain down in south texas where they have tornado watch until 1:00, wet weather in the pacific northwest, scattered thundershowers in the eastern seaboard and those windy conditions back into the great lakes he >> it is going to be much warmer than over the weekend. we will have temperatures in the upper 80s. mostly sunny skies expected as we had to the afternoon. >> and who's this cutie?

>> this is dawn. >> wow, that's money. what a cutie. all right, back to you, meredith. >> she is a keeper, al, thank you very much. up next, store brand versus name brand, sure you can save money buying the generic, but do they taste as good? we have got the answer right after this. what's that? oh, see, this is the back to school list. the cost always makes mom freak. mommy. mom. hey, mom. good times. mom, the back to school list is here.

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this morning on "today's" consumer store brands versus name brands, it can add up quickly if you're buying name brand. but if you buy the cheaper store brands, will they actually taste as good? consumer reports recently conducted a taste test and it's going to make the penny pinchers out there feel pretty good. finally a little love for the store brands? >> absolutely. >> good. >> we have been preaching that message for a long time. and in our latest test, we did 21 head to head matchups, store brands from around the country versus those iconic name brands.

and store brands won 11 times. >> we have our sensory experts at consumer reports and we look at overall quality, freshness of flavors, balance of flavors, the presence of any offnotes or defects. >> let's talk about why this is so important, a study recently found that you can save about on average, 30% if you buy a store brand over a name brand, do the math there. >> oh, sure. >> multiply it by 52 weeks, that's about $5,200 in savings if you were to switch off all store brands. or you can save more or you can save less, but those numbers are real. >> those numbers are based on if you spend $100 a week on groceries. these are items where the store brand beat out the popular name brand. start with soup. >> let's look at these, campbells, one of the most iconic names out there, chicken noodle soup versus food lion.

we preferred or our testers preferred the food lion, because it had a more intense flavor, it wasn't as oily a broth, there was clearly better. >> bad news for oscar meyer and this particular stuff. >> the oscar meyer was certainly okay, but the america's choice was a & p was really juicy and briefly and had a better flavor, where the oscar meyer had kind of an ashy flavor. >> and about a buck difference. these are tossups, these are where the testers say i can really taste no difference. some say they taste better, but it's just as good. >> there could be differences in seasonings and flavors that make them alike. >> canada dry ginger ail versus

generic ginner ale. >> fruit loops versus fruit swirls. these have an artificial flavor, kind of reminiscent of household cleaner, that doesn't mean uniformly good, it just means they taste alike. >> and also good for counter tops. tell me about the yogurt story. >> we had a dan nonyogurt and a food lion yogurt, we thought it had a better vanilla flavor in the food lion. >> danon, 2.14, the food lion, 1.86. the heins ketchup, is a very distedi distinctive flavor. where the foot pantry, was

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it's just the right thing to do. >> live, local, latebreaking. this is wbal-tv 11 news today in baltimore. >> good morning. i am stan stovall. here is kim dacey and traffic pulse 11. >> out of the beltway, accident at edmondson ave or perching edmondson ave. it is causing some delays. hillsdale avenue, closed between liberty heights and bell out and new. debris on the outer loop at 95

blocking the right lane. columbia, fire truck and carmella drive. accident on 40 westbound approaching rowling road. we will give you a live look at the westvi side of the beltway, very jammed up. all holdings of the west side there. disabled vehicle on the shoulder of the outer loop of the beltway. live view of 95, we have an accident and some delays there. we will end with a bit of good news. that is the latest on traffic pulse 11. >> things are nice and quiet in the weather department. temperatures are comfortable. it is going to be a lot warmer than it was over the weekend. 65 at the airport. 64 in rising sun. mostly sunny. high temperatures this afternoon will climb into the upper 80s.

maybe a shower of late tonight, and the seven-day forecast, slight chance for a shower or thunderstorm on wednesday. >> thank you for joining us. back at 8:25.

. 8:00 now on this tuesday morning, september 7, 2010. a great day to be up and out early. and glad to see a happy group of people here. i'm meredith viera alongside matt lauer and al roker. "today" we're kicking off a fu k new series, going back to our first jobs. >> we were all young teenagers trying to get a little bit of spending money. had a newspaper bag over my shoulder. i went back and realized, man, it was a lot harder than i remember.

>> and the weather was good then. >> it's like riding a bike, you never forget. >> did you ever break a window or anything like that? >> the paper was not that heavy. >> you could put a rock in it. >> what are you, charlie brown? >> we put bricks, we would wrap it around a brick and throw it. hey, lady, catch. also ahead, jamie lee curtis, she's a mom and a movie star and she's also an author of children's books. she's just written her ninth book and we're going to talk to her about that. and amazing crash video, an iowa football player is on his mow pedestrian, a head -- moped. he runs into a pick-up truck and walks away. >> let's start with a check of the morning's top stories with

ann at the news desk. sobering news from colorado where a wind whipped wildfire has been roaring near boulder, fire officials now say dozens of homes have been lost since the fire started on monday in a rugged four-mile canyon including homes belonging to the firefighters themselves. people have been evacuated from 1,000 homes and so far, the fire has spread across more than five square miles. tropical storm hermine is battering southern texas with 55-mile-per-hour winds t real threat however is from flooding, as the storm could drop up to a foot of rain all the way up to dallas. republicans are blasting president obama's latest jobs reports revealed at a labor day rally in milwaukee. he wanting to spend $50 billion on roadways, run ways. the top u.s. commander in

afghanistan says the plan to burn the muslim holy book the koran on the anniversary of the september 11 attacks, general petraeus says images of the koran being burned could flame anti-u.s. sentiment. new video has emerged of the moment a 7.1 magnitude earthquake struck new see land on saturday. the video is a surveillance camera at a retail store in christ church. experts warn another earthquake could hit new zealand in the next several days. we get a rare in color glimpse of world war ii from film of the relentless bombing newly found in an attic by the family of an air raid warren who shot it on home equipment. by the end of may 1941, more than 43,000 civilians died in london from german bombs.

it is now 8:03, let's get a check of the weather from al. >> "today's" weather is brought to you by children's advil, relief you can trust. it's a beautiful, breezy morning out here, where are you guys from? >> tampa, florida. >> tampa, florida. and from dallas, they're from everywhere. let's check your weather and see what's happening. billings, montana, nbc 8, sunny and mild, 74 degrees for a high "today." and we have got the jet stream way up to the north, we have got hermine down in texas so there's really nothing to pick that thing up until later on in the week when a trough out west comes and pushes it into the northwest. showers in the pacific northwest, sunny and hot through the gulf >> it is going to be much warmer than over the weekend. for today, mostly sunny skies.

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to start somewhere. matt, al and i are looking back to our first paid employment. >> rediscovering my first job took me back to hartsfield, new york armed with a new bag i pedalled my way into a new career bringing news to america one paper at a time. it was the late 1960s, one of the most exciting times in recent american history. we had landed on the moon. and i had landed my first job as a paper boy for our hometown daily, t"the reporter dispatch." i was 12 years old and on the front lines of delivering the news. >> everybody bought the paper, this was their window to the world. >> reporter: and my little corner of the world was the dalewood rental complex onfie

fieldstone drive, i delivered the paper to my old apartments in the middle of a working class neighborhood. that was my bedroom window from third grade until tenth grade. that's it number 34. number 75, that's where my first crush, amy chandler lived. convenient. they would drop off the bundles of newspapers at this bench in my neighborhood in the i would come down here and the first thing you do is you open the bundle, then you have to fold it by opening a section and folding the other section into it and then slamming it down. this was the time consuming part, folding newspapers every single day. i wanted to have the sense that on any given week i could go out and buy a 45 record, whether it was the beetles or the stones and it was my money. >> if you didn't collect the money or you didn't keep good records, you would end up noll

earning anything. >> i had a stingray bike, it was orange, it had a v handle with the banana seat and a stick shift. this is how i made it around the neighborhood every single day, except for when it was raining, then my mom drove me in the car. these days it's hard to find a kid on the route, a slow death of the evening edition means 80% of newspaper carriers are now adults. but there are a few holdouts, like 15-year-old rachel denny of pennsylvania's beaver county times, voted best youth carrier in her six-state region. like me, she's up every morning at 4:30, out hoofing it with her dad, door to door, two hours and 200 papers a day. >> you don't throw papers? >> no, i put them on the door. >> reporter: you just drop them? >> yeah. >> reporter: you're not a real paper carrier until you throw papers. i invited the young whipper

snapper for a ride on my route. now we're going to deliver some papers. come on, let's go. these were the houses on my route, the whole trick was to get it as close to the door as possible. i was a little behind it. your turn. >> my turn? >> reporter: big-time, 193 hinewood drive. >> okay, here we go. that's not good. >> reporter: right by the sidewalk there. it's going to get wet in the rain. >> oops. >> go behind the back. >> reporter: come on, this isn't my first day on the job. no more walking and driving for you. i want to see you on a bike. >> okay. >> reporter: either chair, you pick the chair, okay? >> that's bad, sorry. >>. >> reporter: regional paper carrier of the year? what was that? at least i hit it. last chance, one more. that's it! >> oh!

>> reporter: ten cents for the grill the two things you always zreded as a paper boy, three things, bad weather, dogs and deadbeats. what about deadbeats, what about the people who don't pay you on time? >> i try to have my dad deal with them. but it's rough. >> reporter: have you ever had a close call like a dog or something like that? >> there's this dog that's huge, every time i go past, it acts like it's going to attack me. >> when i was a kid, a little jack russell terrier used to give me fits every single day, he would chase me all the way down the block. in 1960, all the papers were delivered by boys and girls. "toda today it's basically something that doesn't exist. and that's because a lot of things have changed and parents don't want their kids out there on the street collecting. and it's a bit sad because it

meant a lot to me as a kid. i want to share with you a treat that i would get after my paper route. i would get a yoohoo. everything looks different here, i used to buy fishing lures with my earnings and rachel bought a car. i realized there will always be first jobs and good kids and at least that remains the same. >> she's a sweet girl. >> you're the one who did it for her. >> there was a deli that was on my route. at the end of my route, i would buy yoohoo in a can or a pickle.

mine was in the afternoon. >> do they still make those stingray bikes? was that new, that bike. >> somebody in props got that. very much like my old bike which was really cool. it's amazing when you i think about it though, i started out with 55 papers, the papers make about $25 a week, by the time i insurgented the guy out and had 150 papers, i made about $50 a week. >> that money is impress sif. >> were there days that you didn't want to do it where your mom or dad would say get out there. >> you can't say no. >> so you were really good at delivering the news? >> what are you doing tomorrow?

>> my first paying job was as a dance teacher for little kids. and some of them came back, they're now grown up and i saw them again. >> oh, yeah? >> where were you then? >> in east providence. i started teaching there when i was like 14. >> cool. >> so we get to see that tomorrow? >> and thyes, you get to see th tomorrow. >> and then the rest of you later on in the week? >> yes. and jamie lee curtis wrote a new children's book. out of bed. st to get then... well... i have to keep winding myself up to deal with the sadness, the loss of interest, the trouble concentrating, the lack of energy. if depression is taking so much out of you, ask your doctor about pristiq. (announcer) pristiq is a prescription medicine proven to treat depression.

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her film roles, but for the last 15 years, she's also a superstar in the world of children's boorks, her newest is my mommy from the moon. good morning to you, jamie. i was saying to you before, i remember in 1993 buying your first book, because i had a 4-year-old boy, nine books later, can you believe it? >> huh-uh. it astonishes me, i looked down and my eyes filled with tears. the idea that i'm holding a book and i'm is thing here able to talk about it. that's just extraordinary. >> and the book is about unconditional love between a mother and her children and i understand that you always come one the book title first. >> i do. >> and then the story follows? >> yes. >> where did this book title come from? >> i heard a woman describing her life and i heard her say, my family thinks i hung the moon and i had never heard the phrase before and i thought about a child and it's a book about

mother love, it's a book about that incredible bond that only a mother knows. so for me it came out of that a child is 100% dependent and the mother provides everything, mother provides nerve, good, shelter, ipod, whatever. >> and if she does it right, kids do think she hung the moon. >> and ultimately we can all chart our adult lives by our connection to our mothers. >> and this book is dedicated to your mom, actress janet lee, she passed away in october. your book opens with this line, my mommy hung the moon, she tied it with a string, my mom's good at everything. is this book about your mom? >> no. no, although my mom was good at a lot of things. the idea that my mommy's good at

everything. it's that boast that a child makes. you know, a child, you're your mommy. that's my mommy. and my mom was good at many, many things. my mom was a public person. and she had to dance the life of a public person and a private person. and i have tried to dance the same life trying to focus more on my role as a mother because in my opinion and it's mine and i understand that many women have to work to take care of their children, but the only real thing that's important is what we do with our children. all the work we do is great. and certainly taking care of them, but the love that we show a child is to me the primary reason for me being a mother and my mother tried her best and she was flawed, i am flawed. she was contradict try, i am contradictory, i am just trying to do it a little differently. >> i know you do a lot of

interviews around the book. and you have another coming out. >> yes, very soon. >> you said that it's none of your business, but you have had addictions of your own. you have been very public about the painkillers and the alcohol. >> by the way, my recovery is the single greatest accomplishment of my life. and without that, the rest of my life would have fallen apart. >> how did you succeed? >> it is the miracle of recovery. some people get it -- robert downey jr. was in prison for a year. and he is not only the greatest movie star in the world, he's a fantastic representative of someone who can repair the damage of their life. recovery is an acceptance that your life is in a shambles and you have to change it. and i was lucky i didn't have to lose anything, but recovery and motherhood are the two single greatest things in my life.

writing books, all of the rest of it, my husband, all of the rest of it, the most important thing is my sobriety and my children. >> thank you, jamie, the name of the book is "my mommy hung the moon." >> thanks, meredith. josh has taken some hard hits as center for the university of iowa football team. but nothing like last week, he was riding his moped when he was struck head on by a pick-up truck. it sent him flying through the air, but at the end, he was actually able to get right back up. the accident was caught on a police cruiser's dash cam, josh is with us now exclusively. josh, good morning. i have to tell you, we get to see a lot of video around here, josh, rarely do i gasp outloud when i see some footage like this one. how are you? >> i'm fine, just a few scratches and a bruise, but that's about it. >> you went flying through the air, this was a head-on collision with a pick-up truck,

you remember everything about it? >> i do. i -- as i was getting in the intersection, i saw the truck last minute and i couldn't even hit the brakes and, yeah, it's not like i was flying through the air and the next thing i knew, i rolled over, i saw my phone and grabbed it and stood up. my first reaction was to get to the sidewalk. >> when you saw the videotape, did it shock you? >> yeah, a little bit. i mean it's a crazy video to see and my dad and i went and watched it the next day at the police station and the officers were pretty shocked by the video also, so -- >> and your dad, i think you did something else together, you went and actually talked to the driver of the truck who was pretty shaken up, he thought he had really hurt you, you just went to see him to tell him you were okay, right. >> i just wanted to let him know i was fine and that it was an accident, you know, accidents happen and i didn't want him

losing anymore sleep over it. so i just wanted to let him know i was fine. >> you weren't wearing a helmet, you have a football helmet with you now, you promise to wear one in the future? >> oh, yeah. >> all right, josh, we are so happy you're okay, good luck and good luck with the iowa football team this year. >> thanks. >> live, local, latebreaking. this is wbal-tv 11 news today in baltimore. >> good morning. i am mindy basara up. let's get a final check on the morning commute with kim dacey. >> a very busy morning out there with a lot of stuff to talk about. a fire in hillsdale, closed between liberty heights in belle ave.. loch raven boulevard and belvedere, and an accident 40 westbound to agree on the outer loop of the beltway. -- debris on the outer loop of

the beltway. columbia, fire shuts down carmel drive. report of an accident in pasadena. we will give you a live look outside the west side of the beltway. in an outer lips look like they are all jammed up. you might want leave some extra time or avoid that. if at all possible. live view of 95, we have accident approaching caton avenue. southbound 95 blocking two left lanes. causing big problems there. leave a little extra time this morning. normal delays around the area as well. >> the traffic may be busy, but the weather is quiet. clear skies out there. temperatures in the mid-60's and in most locations. 64 degrees in parkton.

forecast for today is mostly sunny. high temperatures this afternoon will climb into the upper 80s. tomorrow, a slight chance for a shower or thunderstorm. it will cool off on thursday and friday. >> thank you for joining us. we will have another update at 8:55.

last seas we're back now, 8:30 on a tuesday morning. it's the seventh day of september, 2010. it's another picture perfect morning here in the northeast after a gorgeous labor day weekend. earl blew through her on friday. it's been magnificent ever

since. these people are spending part of our morning on the a plaza. great to be home. >> we have got a performance in studio in just a little while from the grammy nominated artist sarah barella. remember the preppie handbook. and also a wildly popular over the years, a look at stylists, an author on screen big and small. now we're back with an update. the person is here with tom brokaw. also if you don't think you have enough time to make healthy fresh food for your baby or your toddler.

then you haven't met norah o'donnell. she's the mother of three children. there she is, along with her husband, he's a chef. they're setting off alarms everywhere for the whole family. and a little later on in joy's diet s.o.s., we have got some healthy recipe force you to eat on the run. all the time we spent on here, it doesn't happen very often. let's check it out and show you what's happening for "today," we have got the remnants of tropical storm hermine, wet weather in the pacific northwest, northern new england, also around the great lakes, it's going to be windy and rainy, tomorrow showers through new york, the heavy rain spreads up into oklahoma from

hermine, wet weather in the pacific northwest, some showers through alaska and the sunshine and heat continue along the >> it is going to be much warmer than over the weekend. we will have temperatures in the upper 80s. mostly sunny skies expected as we had to the afternoon. >> check your weather any time of the day or night on weather.com. 44 years married, julie and mark? >> that's our son and daughter. jackie and jim. >> jackie and jim.

>> you don't have anything to say. >> that's how you stay married for 44 years. and coming up, the preppie handbook.

this morning on "today's" style, the preppie look, 30 years ago the preppie handbook took america by storm. lisa helped tom brokaw understand what it meant to be a preppie. today she's releasing a follow-up original athlete titled true press, it's a whole new old world book. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> why now after 30 years, why the sequel? >> actually the reason why is online somebody pointed out to me, there was a world of people saying, please, we need something. this is a strange world we're living in, technology,

nostradamas couldn't have predicted the cell phone. then there's this huge revolution. >> and you say it's a big change for the preppies out there. >> it's polar place, because we used to say no unnatural fibers can touch our skin. and now we're wearing fres can. children under the age of 20 have never known a flees free life and even preppies have to dress their kids for sports. >> originally when you wrote this book, the preppie handbook 30 years ago, were you shocked at the response? why do you think it took off like it did? >> here was the powerful elite that had never been decoded before and here we were blowing the lid on them. that plus a couple of good appearances from the "today" show. i think also people didn't understand at first who we were. people would say, well, i was on

tour, where are these people, where do you find them and what are they wearing? i said these are my family and friends, thank you, and they're wearing their own clothes. i think we were sort of misunderstood and now it's time as the globalization has come about and the world has become much more inclusive for preppies to be included. >> and in your book, you really didn't see people of color? and now there are many. >> that's another big change in the 30 years, the intermarriage, the interbreeding, the inter everything, it's sort of pointless to keep people out now, some people may say, oh, she's doing that book again, i don't think that's exactly -- you know, i don't think that's nice. >> it's not nice at all. >> it's not nice. >> you made some notable preppies of "today" and i want to go through some of them with you, which i find interesting. you say michelle obama is a prep. >> she was the language of us magazine. she rocks those cardigans, and

of course she is, she went to princeton for goodness sake, you can't go to princeton and not be touched by the kind of preppyification that happens. you may not want to be, but you're at f. scott fits gerald's school. >> and her husband is on the list? >> he went to private school for 13 years, give me a break. >> oliver stone. why oliver stone? >> thrown out of school twice. >> is that a prerequisite for being a preppie? >> it's so major. his parents were divorced and he had to go to boarding school and he had drug problems. and then gwyneth paltrow. >> gwyneth paltrow looks it, there may be a shrine to gwyneth, i don't know where it is, but she definitely went to the good girls school here. when she was in the movie emma, i'm not kidding, she didn't need

any training for french, music or art training. she had all those skills. and that's part of the point of this book is that if you go to these schools, not that you have to be a preppie, but if you do, you will glean, even if you fall asleep in class or cut, you will glean great lessons for your life. >> a lot of people think it was about money, but it was really about etiquette. >> rich people you see getting out of the limo with lock jaw. and manners are so much more important. >> absolutely, i'm going to take a look at preppies in the year 2010. so let's bring out our models. >> it's that time. >> tell me how the looks have changed. >> well, the looks -- since

color, flees and other preppie things have been ininvestigated, preppie clothes fit a lot better than they used to. i'm going to show you gigi, she's wearing the new line from brooks brothers for little girls that never kpisd. and kevin is wearing the corduroy, it's like roy decoy, they're horizontal. and greta is adorable. >> that bag was, we had to have that bag. >> well, yes. >> and here's little oliva in her metallic laced sperries. it's not pink and green anymore that lily is wearing. and what kevin's wearing is part of the signature line. there's something for everybody,

that will make you need to wear sunglasses. >> the book is "true prep." and norah o'donnell cooks up something with her husband the chef but first this is "today" something with her husband the chef but first this is "today" on nbc. my commute home to the eastern shore every night only takes an hour but that's more time than congress spends reading massive spending bills, it's crazy. that's why i wrote a law that requires 72 hours to read every bill. i read the big bills and i said no. no to the $3 trillion budget, no to the bank bailout, and no to the health care bill. at home you would never pay a bill without reading it neither should congress. i'm frank kratovil and i approve this message because i'm proud to be ranked one of the most independent members of congress.

this morning on "today's" kitchen, we're going back to basics with nbc's norah o'donnell and her husband, they have three young children and busy jobs, but despite all that, they found a great way to give their kids nutritious meals without spending hours in the kitchen. that's a good idea. they're out with the new book "baby love," delicious ideas for your baby and toddler. you both have busy jobs and yet you're making home made baby food. now i feel great about myself. how do you find time for this? >> it helps being married to a

chef, no doubt. but when jeff started making these recipes and it just took an hour, i was like this is so easy, you got to tell people about this? he's like nobody cares, i said are you kidding? busy moms like me if they knew that it only takes an hour per week, this could affect people. >> i can get a lot of this stuff that's pretty good in a jar and it's not that expensive, what about my time? >> over six months we sort of calculated it in the book and you save about $400 during the six months. >> you're saving that much money. if you costed it out, a jar of pureed carrots. >> you know what's going to your kids food. this is cinnamon apple oatmeal raisen puree. >> it's absolutely delicious, it's like apple pie and it takes about eight minutes to make the whole recipe. >> are you starting with organic

apples? >> we're starting with organic apples that way we don't even have to peel it which saves more time right there. we're going to cut up, we have got four apples right here, just easy cut them up. we toss the apples right into our four-quart pop. i'm going to let you do the apple juice here. >> in the recipe, you can use water or apple juice. you're using apple juice now, doesn't that add a little sugar to this? >> there's no added sugar in this apple juice, you're not going to be using kool-aide or anything like that. but a little extra calories for young kids, it helps them sleep a little bit more. >> did you research some of these recipes? >> to me the nutritional aspect is a big deal. starting your kids a healthy foundation for healthy eating, so throughout the book you see all these nutrition tips. apples are vitamin packed and processed food in a jar, it gets

cooked so much a lot of the nutrients get cooked out. >> we have got the cinnamon in there, it really adds flavor. i think it's great that the recipe in the book have all sorts of different flavors. >> before going to work, i realized we had no food, i ran out and made it, take a shower and get to work. >> and then after that, what did you do, macromay a hammock? >> but the house smelled like apple pie. it smelled wonderful. >> how long do you cook this? >> about eight minutes. >> we're going to add the oatmeal and cook it for one more minute. and that will help thicken it up and make it a little richer. >> now you've cooked it for nine minutes and you take it out and put it on a food processor. >> make sure the top is on tight, we have had this disaster

before. >> this is the most interesting part, you actually believe in getting your kids involved in the cooking so they start to understand how -- you have to turn that off, i can't talk over that. so they understand the healthier eating right? >> yes, like our kids, we taught them how to make pancakes, they crack the eggs and measure things out. so we're making pancakes so it's not egg mcmuffins all the time. you take this and you put it in an ice cube tray and then the idea is one hour every two weeks so you're not making it every single meal. >> what we do is i freeze it overnight, then i pop it out and put it in zip lock bags and the fruits and the vegetables will last six months. >> look at the colors and i guess it's because it's all fresh, but those colors are beautiful. did you ever eat these yourself? >> i do. i'm a total food junky and this is one of my favorites. this is a perfectly basic key.

when we made this, look at this, compared to like peas in a jar. you can put like a pat of butter on this and a piece of fish on top. >> i'm sticking with the oatmeal raisin apple pie. by the way the book is "baby love."

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